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“Lost in a morality play half its own invention, the media are once again in the old familiar position of not looking quite far enough beyond the end of their noses.”

A special supplement — with selections from 30 years of the Voice — dedicated to the artists of Off-and Off-Off-Broadway.

Starring Spalding Gray, Harvey Fierstein, Maria Irene Fornes, Joseph Papp, Taylor Mead, and many more.

Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”

"Do the Obies actually mean anything to anybody? So much that it sometimes frightens me­ — and, at the same time, nothing at all."

Photographer David Haxton Goes on a Tear